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More broadly, FTTs violate the general public-finance principle that it is inefficient to tax intermediate factors of production, particularly ones that are highly mobile and fluid in their response. An IMF Working Paper finds that the FTT "disproportionately burdens" the financial sector and will also impact pension funds, public corporations, international commerce firms, and the public sector, with "multiple layers of tax" creating a "cascading effect".

Other studies have suggested that the financial transaction tax is regressive in application—particularly the Stamp Duty in the UK, which includes certain exemptions only available to institutional investors.

One UK study, by the Institute for Development Studies, suggests, "In the long run, a significant proportion of the tax could end up being passed on to consumers. The study concluded, therefore, "The tax is thus likely to fall most heavily on long-term, risk-averse investors. Although James Tobin had said his own Tobin tax idea was unfeasible in practice, a study on its feasibility commissioned by the German government concluded that the tax was feasible even at a limited scale within the European time zone without significant tax evasion.

Stiglitz said, the tax is "much more feasible today" than a few decades ago, when Tobin recanted. In January , feasibility of the tax was supported and clarified by researchers Rodney Schmidt, Stephan Schulmeister and Bruno Jetin who noted "it is technically easy to collect a financial tax from exchanges First dealers agree to a trade; then the dealers' banks match the two sides of the trade through an electronic central clearing system; and finally, the two individual financial instruments are transferred simultaneously to a central settlement system.

Thus a tax can be collected at the few places where all trades are ultimately cleared or settled. When presented with the problem of speculators shifting operations to offshore tax havens , a representative of a "pro—Tobin tax" NGO argued as follows:. Agreement between nations could help avoid the relocation threat, particularly if the tax were charged at the site where dealers or banks are physically located or at the sites where payments are settled or 'netted'.

The relocation of Chase Manhattan Bank to an offshore site would be expensive, risky and highly unlikely — particularly to avoid a small tax. Globally, the move towards a centralized trading system means transactions are being tracked by fewer and fewer institutions.

Hiding trades is becoming increasingly difficult. Transfers to tax havens like the Cayman Islands could be penalized at double the agreed rate or more. Citizens of participating countries would also be taxed regardless of where the transaction was carried out. There has been debate as to whether one single nation could unilaterally implement a financial transaction tax.

In the year , "eighty per cent of foreign-exchange trading [took] place in just seven cities. Agreement [to implement the tax] by [just three cities,] London, New York and Tokyo alone, would capture 58 per cent of speculative trading.

Over 1, economists including Nobel laureate Paul Krugman , [] Jeffrey Sachs [] and Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz [37] , more than 1, parliamentarians from over 30 countries, [] [] the world's major labor leaders, the Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions and for Citizens' Action , Occupy Wall Street protesters, Oxfam , War on Want [] and other major development groups, the World Wildlife Fund , Greenpeace [] and other major environmental organizations support a FTT.

However, the reality is that a commission of the Vatican of which the Pope is not a member merely said that such a tax would be worth reflecting on. In their opinion FTT would constitute, among other things, a fair political initiative in the current financial crisis and it would represent an EU added value.

Most hedge funds managers fiercely oppose FTT. In , the IMF conducted considerable research that opposes a transaction tax. This is an interesting issue. We will look at it from various angles and consider all proposals. Challenging the IMF's belittling of the financial transaction tax, Stephan Schulmeister of the Austrian Institute of Economic Research found that, "the assertion of the IMF paper, that a financial transaction tax 'is not focused on the core sources of financial instability', does not seem to have a solid foundation in the empirical evidence.

The report indicated that "there is a widely held perception that IMF research is message driven. About half of the authorities held this view, and more than half of the staff indicated that they felt pressure to align their conclusions with IMF policies and positions.

A survey published by YouGov suggests that more than four out of five people in the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy think the financial sector has a responsibility to help repair the damage caused by the economic crisis. It found that Europeans "strongly support the various measures that the European Union could adopt to reform the global financial markets A quarter of Europeans are against it, possibly because of the fear that they themselves might be subject to this tax.

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In that context, James Tobin , influenced by the work of Keynes, suggested his more specific currency transaction tax for stabilizing currencies on a larger global scale. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.